I don't use XP or Panther and I don't intend on using Longhorn or OS X anytime in the near future. Be that as it may, it's obvious to me that even if you can argue that Longhorn is going to be better than Panther, WTF is the point? You know Apple is working on improvements to their OS anyway, so the only logical comparison is going to be Longhorn versus the future Apple OS.
Except that in the US, I can go into an ethnic shop and find perfectly legal items with foreign-language labels. Even if there's an "uproar" no one's going to ban it unless the labelling is actually misleading. This isn't about protecting "poor consumers". It's about people trying to keep a hold of language they fear is dying. As Mr. T might say, I pity the fools.
This has been a problem for a while now for merchants in Quebec, and there have been numerous stories. What gets me is that even if you only speak English, your signs and advertising still have to have French in it. Just silly.
IIRC, most of the team that developed EF2 had been let go after the game went gold. The chances of any official mods like the add on pack for EF1 are next to nil; they're basically saying, "Go make you're own mods."
i find console game quality has gone down the tubes. Enter the Matrix comes to mind. I know that's on the extreme end, but there are other games that suffer from QA defficiencies.
from the article: My guess is that a good 50% or more of PDA users bought the PDA for playing games.
I find that hard to believe, based off of my personal observations of friends and colleagues who own PDAs and the fact that most PDAs don't have an interface that that is designed for games.
Really, if you're going to do any portable gaming, the GBA and other such devices are better suited if for no other reason than because of the control interface. PDA controls are geared usually towards launching some applications quickly. Running complex PC-style games doesn't make sense for PDAs because many require utilizing keyboards.
Do one thing and do it well. Do too many things, especially on a small platform and you get the N-Gage.
Every time the press release mentions "processor," they're talking about the CPU.
It's easy to assume that I suppose...except that modern computers typically have other processors such as for sound and video. I'd rather have it state "CPU" explicitely, because I found the text to be far too vague.
Under the agreement,
Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from
IBM for use in future Xbox(R) products and services to be announced at a later
date.
That's all the detail that the article really gives. The rest is typical corporate marketing. No where did I see anything that says that IBM is designing the central processing unit for the XBox 2.
If you read the article more closely (and some of the comments), you'd notice there is mention of the fact that there are certain restrictions to Apple's service. I don't see any blind support for Apple. So calm down, Anonymous Coward.
The point is MS is criticizing Apple for doing what MS would love to do but has failed miserably at. MS has no interest in "choice" and you know it.
Even though MS doesn't make hardware they've adversely affected hardware by forcing their OS onto OEMs and preventing competing OSes from having any chance. This has the effect of slowing down the progress of hardware because only MS-supported hardware will quickly succeed.
I don't use Apple products because of their closed nature, but I'd hardly call them monopolistic - especially not at the level MS has shown.
I don't think Brave New World applies here. This technology is meant to aid in fertilization for those with diffulties otherwise...not the sole method as we see in Huxley's book. Also, it's not like scientists are trying to create different classes of people (alphas, betas, etc). Brave New World wasn't really about creating offspring artifically anyway.
These aren't companies that are interested in putting out quality games. These are companies interested in pushing out games that will sell as fast as possible.
Yep, and Enter the Matrix is Atari's biggest example yet...well, that and the original Atari's horrific port of Pac Man.
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then i stand corrected
My understanding is that Israel's Ministry of Commerce is going to stick with Windows, so AbiWord and Gnumeric are not viable in that situation.
I don't use XP or Panther and I don't intend on using Longhorn or OS X anytime in the near future. Be that as it may, it's obvious to me that even if you can argue that Longhorn is going to be better than Panther, WTF is the point? You know Apple is working on improvements to their OS anyway, so the only logical comparison is going to be Longhorn versus the future Apple OS.
Except that in the US, I can go into an ethnic shop and find perfectly legal items with foreign-language labels. Even if there's an "uproar" no one's going to ban it unless the labelling is actually misleading. This isn't about protecting "poor consumers". It's about people trying to keep a hold of language they fear is dying. As Mr. T might say, I pity the fools.
This has been a problem for a while now for merchants in Quebec, and there have been numerous stories. What gets me is that even if you only speak English, your signs and advertising still have to have French in it. Just silly.
Where's my fair and balanced coverage?
/., not Fox News. ;-P
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IIRC, most of the team that developed EF2 had been let go after the game went gold. The chances of any official mods like the add on pack for EF1 are next to nil; they're basically saying, "Go make you're own mods."
i find console game quality has gone down the tubes. Enter the Matrix comes to mind. I know that's on the extreme end, but there are other games that suffer from QA defficiencies.
from the article: My guess is that a good 50% or more of PDA users bought the PDA for playing games.
I find that hard to believe, based off of my personal observations of friends and colleagues who own PDAs and the fact that most PDAs don't have an interface that that is designed for games.
Really, if you're going to do any portable gaming, the GBA and other such devices are better suited if for no other reason than because of the control interface. PDA controls are geared usually towards launching some applications quickly. Running complex PC-style games doesn't make sense for PDAs because many require utilizing keyboards.
Do one thing and do it well. Do too many things, especially on a small platform and you get the N-Gage.
Every time the press release mentions "processor," they're talking about the CPU.
It's easy to assume that I suppose...except that modern computers typically have other processors such as for sound and video. I'd rather have it state "CPU" explicitely, because I found the text to be far too vague.
Under the agreement, Microsoft has licensed leading-edge semiconductor processor technology from IBM for use in future Xbox(R) products and services to be announced at a later date.
That's all the detail that the article really gives. The rest is typical corporate marketing. No where did I see anything that says that IBM is designing the central processing unit for the XBox 2.
Like this?
as i'm reading this, the bottom of the page says, "I am NOMAD."
If you read the article more closely (and some of the comments), you'd notice there is mention of the fact that there are certain restrictions to Apple's service. I don't see any blind support for Apple. So calm down, Anonymous Coward.
The point is MS is criticizing Apple for doing what MS would love to do but has failed miserably at. MS has no interest in "choice" and you know it.
Even though MS doesn't make hardware they've adversely affected hardware by forcing their OS onto OEMs and preventing competing OSes from having any chance. This has the effect of slowing down the progress of hardware because only MS-supported hardware will quickly succeed.
I don't use Apple products because of their closed nature, but I'd hardly call them monopolistic - especially not at the level MS has shown.
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I don't think Brave New World applies here. This technology is meant to aid in fertilization for those with diffulties otherwise...not the sole method as we see in Huxley's book. Also, it's not like scientists are trying to create different classes of people (alphas, betas, etc). Brave New World wasn't really about creating offspring artifically anyway.
if you look at the patent, it looks like december 2002.
I would have thought that anybody who bought a Brittany Spears CD would be too brain dead to circumvent DRM to begin with.
It's not a purse, it's a carry-all!
SGI developed XFS which is in the linux kernel.
you didn't click on the gaim link did you?
They should recruit Tom Clancy for this project.
These aren't companies that are interested in putting out quality games. These are companies interested in pushing out games that will sell as fast as possible.
Yep, and Enter the Matrix is Atari's biggest example yet...well, that and the original Atari's horrific port of Pac Man.
How about Enter the Matrix? Atari essentially is Infograms.
That might depend on what your definition of a PC is. This site might beg to differ.